Risk perception is a significant component of awareness of breast cancer risks. It can be helpful to reduce deaths of breast cancer via increasing awareness risk level. This study aimed to discuss the level of perceived and calculated breast cancer risk and to provide data on the practice of breast self-examination and use of mammography among 215 nurses and midwives working in the 23 primary h...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe perceived breast cancer risk, identify the percentage of women with inaccurate risk perceptions, and examine the influence of perceived and objective risk on screening behavior. DESIGN Descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional. SETTING Community settings in a metropolitan area on the western coast of the United States. SAMPLE Multicultural sample of 184 En...

The goal of this paper is double. First of all, we want to test the relationship between the two dimensions of intangibility and the global perceived risk. Moreover, we want to evaluate how service knowledge and the frequency of service utilization affect the perceived level of both physical and mental intangibility, and the relation between those two dimensions and the perceived risk. Results ...

nowadays, internet technology provides an opportunity for banks and financial institutions to take advantages in dynamic and competitive turbulent environment in their favor. in addition, considering the importance and status of internet banking and growing trend of it in the country in recent years, now banks and financial institutions have found that maintaining status and effective developme...

Although there are many studies on the adoption intentions for smartphone-based mobile banking, there is no apparent effect on the popularity of it. This is because the smartphone users have a resistance to innovation on mobile banking. The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the relationship between user resistance and different factors from innovation and user’s characteristics. ...

BACKGROUND Accurate breast cancer recurrence risk perceptions might motivate health-promoting behaviors and alleviate undue anxiety. Although a few studies have examined early-stage breast cancer survivors' perceived risk of recurrence, none have assessed the accuracy of survivors' perceived risk of recurrence. METHODS First primary ductal carcinoma in situ and early-invasive breast cancer su...

OBJECTIVE To determine the predictive validity of perceived risk, risk taking, estimation of ability, overefficacy, and previous injuries on actual injury among adolescents in sport; and to examine sex differences on these factors. METHODS A cohort of 260 (148 male, 112 female) soccer players aged 11 to 14 years participated in a 3-month prospective injury study. Preseason written measures in...

singapore is depicted to be the fastest growing telecommunications nation in asia. presently, all the members of the singapore banking industry have engaged in the use of information and communication technology as a platform for effective and efficient means of conducting financial transactions. this paper focuses on determining the level of users’ acceptance of the electronic banking services...

BACKGROUND We sought to evaluate the concordance between self-assessed perceptions of fracture risk and actual risk calculated by World Health Organization's 10-year Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX). METHODS We collected demographic data, lifestyle information, osteoporosis knowledge, bone density test results, and treatment history from patients aged 50 to 75 years. Subjects rated their ...

With the rise of electronic commerce, traditional ways of distributing pharmaceuticals have been supplemented by online pharmacies. However, as the online environment offers further opportunities for fraudulent suppliers, there are also dangers associated with the purchase of drugs online (Arruñada 2004). For example, a consumer's health might be jeopardized by counterfeit medications bought on...